7-letter words containing a, y, c
- faculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
- fancify — to make fancy or fanciful; dress up; embellish.
- fancily — In a fancy manner.
- farcify — (transitive) To make farcical; to turn into farce.
- flyback — the return to its starting point of the electron beam in a cathode ray tube, as after the completion of a line in a television picture or of a trace in an oscilloscope.
- focally — of or relating to a focus.
- gascony — a former province in SW France.
- gotchya — Alt form gotcha.
- gynecia — gynoecium.
- gyrocar — a car or coach that runs on a single rail and is stabilized by gyroscopes that move in opposing directions
- hackery — journalism; hackwork
- hackney — Also called hackney coach. a carriage or coach for hire; cab.
- halcyon — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- haycock — a small conical pile of hay stacked in a hayfield while the hay is awaiting removal to a barn.
- hayrack — a rack for holding hay for feeding horses or cattle.
- hayrick — Chiefly Midland U.S. rick1 (def 1).
- infancy — the state or period of being an infant; very early childhood, usually the period before being able to walk; babyhood.
- jacalyn — a female given name.
- joyance — joyous feeling; gladness.
- joycean — of, relating to, or characteristic of James Joyce or his work.
- keycard — a plastic card, similar to a credit card, containing data on an embedded magnetized strip that can electronically unlock a door, activate a machine, etc.
- kolacky — a sweet bun filled with jam or pulped fruit.
- lackeys — Plural form of lackey.
- lacquey — a servile follower; toady.
- lactary — of, relating to, or of the nature of milk.
- laicity — The principles, status, or influence of the laity.
- larceny — the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker's own use.
- latency — the state of being latent.
- layback — Figure Skating. a spin, usually performed by a woman, in which the upper body is arched backward and the free leg lifted and turned out from the hip.
- letchya — Alt form letcha.
- lichway — a path used to carry a coffin into a church or to burial
- locally — in a particular place, area, location, etc.
- lyncean — of or relating to a lynx; lynxlike.
- lyrical — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- macsyma — Project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulator. The first comprehensive symbolic mathematics system, written in Lisp by Joel Moses <[email protected]> of MIT in 1969, later Symbolics, Inc. Versions include Symbolics Macsyma, DOE Maxima (ANL, in Common LISP) and Vaxima.
- malachy — Saint. 1094–1148, Irish prelate; he became Archbishop of Armagh (1132) and founded (1142) the first Cistercian abbey in Ireland. Feast day: Nov 3
- maracay — a city in NE Venezuela, SW of Caracas.
- masculy — covered with mascles
- mauchly — John William, 1907–80, U.S. physicist and coinventor of the ENIAC, the first electronic computer 1946.
- maybeck — Bernard, 1862–1957, U.S. architect.
- mayence — French name of Mainz.
- mcnally — Terrance, born 1938, U.S. playwright.
- mediacy — the state of being mediate.
- myalgic — Pertaining to myalgia.
- mycelia — Plural form of mycelium.
- mycella — a blue-veined Danish cream cheese, less strongly flavoured than Danish blue
- mycenae — an ancient city in S Greece, in Argolis: important ruins.
- myspace — (Internet) One's profile on the MySpace website.
- nectary — Botany. an organ or part that secretes nectar.